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Futurama had a balanced cast of great characters, but Bender really stood out from the crowd. Obnoxious and vulgar, yet confident and friendly, he certainly wasn’t one to shy away from a drink or game of cards. But despite his confronting demeanour, he was a good friend to those around him.

Bender was a key figure in making Futurama the show that it was, and his frequent references to gambling and partying hit home for many us always on the lookout for a cheeky bet. What better way to celebrate the loose, fun ways of everyone’s favourite gambling robot than by reminiscing about his best moments?

Bender is often mean and disrespectful in regards to other people's feelings. At one point, he flushed Leela's beloved pet Nibbler down the toilet, and didn't feel bad about it until the Professor attached an empathy chip to his head, forcing him to feel other people's emotions. He is also quite arrogant, frequently bragging about how great he is. Futurama Bender / Sal / URL / Elzar / Randy Munchnik / Igner / Additional Voices / Mr. Panucci / Joey Mousepad / Randy / Barbados Slim / Dandy Jim / Flexo / The Chain Smoker / Yancy Fry Sr. / Curly Joe / Gus's Friend / Hermaphrobot / Human Friend / Jimmy / Noticeably F.A.T. / Robot Santa / Additional vOICES / Adult Chatroom Bouncer / Alien Disguised as Human / Angus #4 / Animatronic Whalers. In this episode, Bender decides it's time to fulfill his lifelong dream. And no, it doesn't involve Blackjack and hookers: we're talking about his dream to become a folk singer. But Bender being Bender, he has to go about things in a truly unique way. This naturally results in some disasters. 6 Best: Meanwhile.

Let’s take a look back at the funniest quotes from Bender over the years.

The best Bender quotes

“I’ll build my own theme park. With blackjack, and hookers. In fact, forget the park!”

Season 1, Episode 2: The Series Has Landed

This is probably the quintessential Bender quote. In only the series’ second ever episode, Bender quickly established himself as a fan favourite. In this scene, Bender is thrown out of a moon theme park, which is appropriately called “Luna Park”, and stomps off threatening to start his own gambling amusement park.

“The game’s over. I have all the money. Compare your lives to mine and then kill yourselves!”

Season 2, Episode 7: A Head In The Polls

Bender will do anything to earn a quick buck. In this episode, he exploits a shortage of titanium by selling his body and making a hefty profit. Of course, while he initially celebrates his new-found wealth, he soon discovers that the gamble didn’t quite pay off.

“You know what always cheers me up? Laughing at other people’s misfortunes”

Season 4, Episode 18: The Devil’s Hands Are Idle Playthings

In arguably one of the best Futurama episodes ever comes this brutal quote that really epitomises Bender’s at-times brutal personality. In this instance, he’s laughing at Fry’s inability to play music for Leela.

Fry: “It’s hopeless. I can hear all this great music in my head but my stupid hands can’t keep up.”
Bender: “Aw. You know what always cheers me up? Laughing at other people’s misfortunes. Hahaha haha.”

“Blackmail is such an ugly word. I prefer extortion. The ‘x’ makes it sound cool.“

Season 2, Episode 16: Anthology Of Interest I

Just went you thought Bender had established some sort of moral compass, he hits back with this. Leela, reeling after having accidentally killed the professor, turns to Bender for help, but he ends up blackma…erm, “extorting” her.

“This is the worst kind of discrimination there is: the kind against me!”

Season 7, Episode 17: War Is The H-Word

Bender says what so many of us think but are afraid to say. In this case, he feels as though he is discriminated against because he can’t buy gum at a discount. His quote stands the test of time.

“I don’t need to drink: I can quit anytime.”

Season 1, Episode 1: Space Pilot 3000

This exchange between Fry and Bender in the show’s pilot really set it up for a strong first season. Bender’s response is pure gold: drinking is a vice, and no one needs to do it, and that he can quit any time he wants to. That’s a philosophy I can live by!

“I mean, being a robot’s great but we don’t have emotions and sometimes that makes me very sad.”

Season 3, Episode 18: Anthology of Interest II

This is a great quote because it highlights that Bender is unaware of his feelings, either because he is unwilling to accept they exist, or because he genuinely doesn’t know he has them. It’s interesting, because it’s not often that Bender is so emotional, even if he doesn’t know it!

“Should I get one 300-hundred dollar hooker, or three hundred 1-dollar hookers?”

Season 5, Episode 11: Three Hundred Big Boys

Bender posing the big, important questions as usual.

“Do a flip!”

Season 2, Episode 14: How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back

Bender can be a great friend when he wants to be, but he often fails to understand the severity of situations. Take this moment with Hermes, who is threatening to commit suicide. While his friends plead with him to come down, Bender screams out, “Do a flip!” Classic Bender.

“You’re the first”

Season 1, Episode 3: I, Roommate

The friendship of Bender and Fry is truly one for the ages.

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Futurama: Bender's Game is a 2008 American direct-to-videoadult animatedscience fantasycomedy film and the third of the four Futurama films that make up the show's fifth season. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray on November 4, 2008.

According to the Beast with a Billion Backs DVD commentary, the film, which spoofs Dungeons & Dragons, was in production when Dungeons & Dragons creator, Gary Gygax, died. The film contains a post-credits tribute to Gygax in the form of a title card and a clip of him from the episode 'Anthology of Interest I'. Elements of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and George Lucas' Star Wars are also parodied. The title of the film is a pun on the book Ender's Game^[1] by Orson Scott Card, though the Futurama film has 'very little to do with the subject material' of the book.^[2] Conversely, the 1985 book also used 'Bender' as a mocking pun for 'Ender', but Matt Groening stated^[3] this is not the original inspiration for Bender's name.

Plot[edit]

Defying Professor Farnsworth, Leela borrows the Planet Express Ship to enter a demolition derby after insults from rednecks anger her. Bender finds Cubert and Dwight playing Dungeons & Dragons, but cannot join in since, as a robot, he has no imagination. Bender manages to imagine himself as a medieval knight named 'Titanius Anglesmith, fancy man of Cornwood' and enters the game. He becomes lost in his fantasy and goes on a rampage, resulting in his commitment to the Hal Institute for Criminally Insane Robots.

The crew learns that Mom, who controls the world's only dark matter mine, is restricting the supply to drive up profits. The Professor reveals that while working for Mom, he discovered how to turn dark matter into fuel. The process created two crystals, with Mom keeping one for herself and Farnsworth hiding the other, 'anti-backwards' crystal. If the crystals are brought together, they will render dark matter useless. Farnsworth, Fry, and Leela fly to Mom's mine with the crystal to neutralize the dark matter.

Encountering Mom and her three sons, Leela fends off Walt, Larry and Igner, while Farnsworth tries to bring his and Mom's crystals together; when Farnsworth is at risk of losing the anti-backwards crystal, he swallows it. The closeness of the crystals triggers a resonance in all dark matter and catapults the characters into Cornwood, the realm Bender imagines himself to be from.

'Frydo' (Fry) and 'Leegola' (Leela, now a centaur) encounter 'Titanius' (Bender); no one in Cornwood has any memory of their real lives except for Fry and Leela. The three are attacked by 'Waltazar' (Walt), 'Larius' (Larry) and 'Ignus' (Igner), who are trying to recover the anti-backwards crystal. While fighting them off, Frydo drops the crystal, which rolls like a die and magically banishes the sons. Frydo and company meet the wizard 'Greyfarn' (Farnsworth), who explains that in this world, the anti-backwards crystal is known as the Die of Power. The evil sorceress 'Momon' (Mom) molded a set of powerful dice, but lost this one and has been trying to locate it so she can tap its immense potential. The only way to stop Momon is to enter her lair at the Geysers of Gygax and throw the Die into the lake of molten plastic from which it was formed.

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As the group sets out, the intersex, pacifist centaur (Hermes) bars their passage; the centaurs are opposed to the violence that Frydo and company intend to do. (S)he is easily pushed aside by Leela, who leads everyone to the Cave of Hopelessness. As they approach, 'Gynecaladriel' (Amy): Queen of the Water Nymphos joins their quest and seduces the guard, enabling them to enter the Cave. Inside the Cave, a horde of 'Morcs' attacks followed by a gigantic lobster creature (Zoidberg) which Leegola cuts to pieces in a rage, and the wormlike Tunneling Horror which Frydo defeats using the Die. As Frydo becomes obsessed with the Die, Leegola renounces violence and takes refuge among the centaurs. Frydo attempts to murder the other members of the party; when foiled, he flees with the die.

The remaining travelers journey to Wipe Castle to raise an army against Momon, only to find that Roberto, its insane king, has sent his men on a suicide mission. The heroes defend the kingdom as Waltazar and Larius lay siege to it until Leegola regains her violent nature and rallies the centaurs to help her friends. Frydo makes his way into Momon's lair, aided by Zoidberg's still-living head; Frydo cannot bring himself to destroy the Die, so Zoidberg bites him to force him to drop it. Momon becomes a dragon and goes after the Die, but when it stops rolling, it turns Frydo into a dragon as well. The rest of the party arrives, along with Ignus, who reveals a secret Momon told his brothers: he is Greyfarn's son. Overwhelmed by this revelation, Greyfarn inadvertently allows Momon to seize the Die.

Cornwood collapses in on itself, hurling the characters back into the real world. The Professor requests a hug from Igner. As the Professor theorized, Igner swallowed Mom's crystal in defiance, and the hug brings the crystals in the two men's stomachs close enough to render dark matter useless. The crew harnesses dozens of Nibblonians to pull their ship home.

Cast[edit]

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• Billy West as Philip J. Fry / Frydo, Professor Farnsworth / Greyfarn, Dr. Zoidberg / Monster, Additional voices
• Katey Sagal as Leela / Leegola
• John DiMaggio as Bender / Titanius Anglesmith, Igner / Ignus, Additional voices
• Tress MacNeille as Mom / Momon, Nurse Ratchet, Additional voices
• Maurice LaMarche as Walt / Waltazar, Dr. Perceptron, Additional voices
• Phil LaMarr as Hermes Conrad / Hermaphrodite, Dwight Conrad, Additional voices
• Lauren Tom as Amy Wong / Gynecaladriel, Additional voices
• David Herman as Larry / Larius, Roberto / King of Wipe Castle, Additional voices
• Kath Soucie as Cubert Farnsworth, Additional voices
• Frank Welker as Nibbler, Additional voices
• Gary Gygax as Himself (archive footage taken from 'Anthology of Interest I')
• Rich Little as Himself
• George Takei as Himself
• David X. Cohen, Paul D. Calder, Danik Thomas^[4] as Die of Power (uncredited, singing harmony)

Features[edit]

Opening sequence[edit]

The opening subtitle of the DVD and the first part of the broadcast version is 'The flames in your TV are not part of the show'. The cartoon on the Jumbotron is Quasi at the Quackadero. Similar to the previous film, instead of the ship crashing into the Jumbotron as in a regular episode, it gets absorbed through the screen, whereupon the opening sequence becomes a parody of the 1968 animated film Yellow Submarine. The crew flies by bits of the number e then smashes back out through the screen and into the real world.

DVD[edit]

The DVD features an Audio Commentary, Storyboard Animatic, Futurama Genetics Lab, Dungeons & Dragons and Futurama featurette, How to draw Futurama in 83 easy steps Featurette, Deleted scene, 3D Model with Animator Discussion, Outtakes, Bender's Anti-Piracy Warning and sneak peek at Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder. Easter Eggs show David X. Cohen displaying a collection of different Polyhedrons, and extra outtakes of Billy West.

The Blu-ray also exclusively features Picture-in-Picture video footage of the commentary.

References[edit]

Futurama Bender Blackjack Quote

1. ^Futurama Animators Roll 20-Sided Die With Bender's Game
2. ^Bender's Game Just A Pun (Wayback Machine)
3. ^'Intellectual Names'. Sci-Fi Baby Names: 500 Out-of-this-world Baby Names from Anakin to Zardoz. p. 119.
4. ^Audio commentary of Bender's Game

External links[edit]

• Futurama: Bender's Game on IMDb
• Futurama: Bender's Game at AllMovie
• Futurama: Bender's Game at Rotten Tomatoes
• Bender's Game at The Infosphere.